Re: [PATCH] Reread partition table when a partition is added

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On Monday 23 August 2004 12:53, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:19:06AM +0300, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
> >   This small patch rereads the partition table even if the block device
> > is beeing used. It only rereads it when there are no changes at the
> > current partitions and there are new partitions added at the end. Any
> > existing partition change will/should make it fail.
> >
> >   Is it OK and/or useful ?
>
> What you want is possible already today.
> For an example, see partx in util-linux.

Oh! didn't new about that. Indeed it seems to be the right thing to do (tm) 
regarding partition handling. Util-linux does not build partx by default so I 
didn't notice it at all.

Thanks!

> Andries
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